El Dia reports: Chiquitania The first technical archaeologists graduated The Chiquitania already has its first professional archaeologists at the technical level, who were trained in the school, thanks to the Ministry of Education, supported by six municipalities of the Chiquitania and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation of the Embassy of Spain (AECID). The…
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Bolivian Catholic University graduate receives Fulbright Scholarship
Pagina Siete reports: UCB graduate receives Fulbright Scholarship Ing. Benjamin Pinaya, who studied at La Paz Regional Academic Unit of the Universidad Católica Boliviana “San Pablo”, was selected to receive a Fulbright scholarship to a graduate degree in Robotics Engineering. Yuki Kondo-Shah, aggregate Cultural a.i. at the Embassy of the United States of America in…
Bolivian miscegenation and its dilemmas
H.C.F. Mansilla writes superbly in El Dia: Miscegenation and its dilemmas The contrast between mestizaje and indianism that characterizes many public discussions should be relativized in view of the historical experiences and events of recent years in Bolivia. This hidden controversy, as is usual in social phenomena of the most various kinds, which are usually…
Our Bolivian elderly and The Global AgeWatch Index 2014
Bolivia went down to the 51st position from 46th last year. . . . . . . . . http://www.helpage.org/global-agewatch/population-ageing-data/country-ageing-data/?country=Bolivia%2B%2528Plurinational%2BState%2Bof%2529 Bolivia’s stronghold regarding the elderly is their families. Bolivians in general like to live with their elderly, few of us end up in nursing homes. Over the sat ten years, it…
300,000 hectares of deforested forest
Leyla Mendieta reports for El Dia: A total of 4.6 million in other areas 300,000 hectares of deforested forest Data. They warn that the expansion of the agricultural frontier by 2025, would have affected 10 million. Of the 4,641,000 hectares deforested to date, approximately 370,621 will correspond to protected forests, as noted in a report…
Mutun, a constant reminder of current gov’s inefficiency!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: The Mutún gasometer The Mutún steel project is not working, it is true, but plays an irreplaceable role: used to know how much natural gas is available to Bolivians after the demand for Argentina and Brazil has been serviced. The “gas war” that was fought earlier this century, has…
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